Odette Jasse

Odette Jasse (21 August 1899 – 9 January 1949) was a French astronomer who led a scientific and administrative career at the Marseille Observatory.

Biography Jasse was born in Saint-Victoret, France. Her parents were a teacher and a customs inspector, but her father died in 1928 and her mother followed only a few years later.

Jasse attended a school for girls in Marseille before graduating with a degree in mathematics and physics, and in August 1920 she began working as an intern at the Marseille Observatory on the advice of the Observatory's director Henry Bourget.

In that capacity, Jasse observed dwarf planets and the travel paths of the star Aldebaran and the Moon and photographed comets. However, Jasse never completed her doctoral thesis, due, in part, by her devotion to her duties at the Observatory.

Jasse died in 1949 in Marseille, where a street is named in her honour.

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